Core Faculty
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Bridges, William H., IV
- Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
- wbridges@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2235
- 407 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Modern Japanese language, literature, and culture; Race and ethnicity in modern Japanese literature and culture; Contemporary Japanese popular culture, especially anime; 20th-century African American literature; Literary theory, especially African American literary theory and the theory of the novel; Translation (theory and practice); Rhetoric and composition; Digital Humanities
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Doughty, Kristin
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- kristin.doughty@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5155
- 437 Lattimore Hall
Interests: political and legal anthropology; politics of reconciliation; transitional justice; violence and conflict; memory; politics of energy; Africa; Rwanda

Dubler, Joshua
- Associate Professor of Religion
- Director, Rochester Education Justice Initiative
- joshua.dubler@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4756
- 428A Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Religion in America
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Ealey, Jordan
they/she
- Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies
Interests: Black feminist theory and praxis; Black theatre and performance; Nineteenth and twentieth century Black intellectual history, sound studies, popular music, and Black girlhood studies
H

Hunter, Cory
- Assistant Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music
- cory.hunter@rochester.edu
- 1-341 Dewey Hall
I

Inikori, Joseph E.
- Professor Emeritus of History
- inik@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9020
- 437 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Atlantic World Economic History
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Kemedjio, Cilas
- Professor of French
- cilaskemedjio@rochester.edu | (585) 275--425
- 406 Lattimore
Interests: Francophone Caribbean and African literary and cultural studies; postcolonial theory; transnational black studies; humanitarianism

Kyker, Jennifer
- Associate Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Eastman School of Music
- jennifer.kyker@rochester.edu | (585) 275-0239
- 1-308 Dewey Hall
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Mandala, Elias C.
- Professor of History
- elias.mandala@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2058
- 439 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Southern Africa since the 19th Century; Social History

Mariner, Kathryn
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- kathryn.mariner@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8734
- 444 Lattimore Hall
Interests: intimacy and social inequality; politics of race, class and gender; temporality; kinship and adoption; care; social work; space and place; visual anthropology; United States

Marshall, Cona
- Assistant Professor of American Religions
- cona.marshall@rochester.edu | Office (585) 275-9368
- 420 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Womanism, Black feminism, the Black church (as an institution), and African American public religious rhetoric

McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.
- Frederick Douglass Professor
Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor of Black Studies - Chair, Faculty Programs and Departmental Initiatives, Department of Black Studies
- jmccune@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5346
- 311B Morey Hall

McHarris, Philip V.
he/him/his
- Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies
Interests: Racial inequality, housing, and policing

Michael, John
- John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry
Professor of English
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies - Director, American Studies
Interim Chair, Department of Black Studies
- john.michael@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9259
- 405 Morey Hall
Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies
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Omelsky, Matthew
- Assistant Professor of English
- matthew.omelsky@rochester.edu
- 417 Morey Hall
Interests: Global black cultural studies; African and Caribbean literatures; film and digital media; time and phenomenology; speculative fiction; critical theory.
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Sierra Silva, Pablo M.
- Associate Professor of History
- pablo.sierra@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8354
- 461 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: African Diaspora, Latin American and Atlantic History
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Tucker, Jeffrey Allen
- Associate Professor of English
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Black Studies
- jeffrey.tucker@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2064
- 418 Morey Hall
Interests: African-American literature; 20th-century American literature; science fiction
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Willis, Sharon
- Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts
Professor of Art and Art History
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
- sharon.willis@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5757
- 517 Morey Hall
Interests: Film history and theory; visual and cultural studies; women's studies and feminist theory; comparative literature and critical theory; French cinema; 19th and 20th century French literature